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Your World Map Is Completely Wrong
Your world map is probably the most incorrect projection of land on Earth around and you never even noticed. Watch the video above for more. Spare a thought for the old Mercator projection, because it’s been having a troubled time of late. Yes, everyone’s favorite pastime on the Internet (stretching back to that West Wing
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